Hahaha, I rate the chances of this to 0.0001%. Aiyuk is going nowhere because the 49ers can keep him indefinately costing them $0.00 because he won’t show up. What incentive is there to release him to sign with another team, and what other team is going to be willing to give up anything for this guy.
@nflrums Kittle tore his Achilles in the playoffs and is already targeting Week 1 in Australia That's a different kind of mentality right there. If he's healthy and Purdy gets that safety blanket back this 49ers offense goes from a question mark to legitimately dangerous.
@ItsMeDarrell@AdamSchefter Oh please there is no credible study that shows this to be false. If it were false the out flow of population from Illinois, California, and New York wouldn't be happening...
@IllinNoize@AdamSchefter You may want to research that further, the income tax rate is 2% lower. Property tax rates are substantially lower, sales tax rates are lower. For high income individuals these things add up to real money.
Here’s the reality, Portland wants to play in the big pool and attract an MLB team, right now they are likely behind Salt Lake City and Nashville in that endeavor. If they don’t figure out this arena issue fast and keep the Blazers happy then they are all but done in the quest for MLB.
Here is what Steve will not tell you because he is a union shill:
The MLBPA does not care about cost control. It does not care about competitive balance. The single biggest limiting factor preventing MLB players as a whole from achieving their true market value is the lack of access, or timely access, to the labor market.
The chief concern of the union is blocking a salary cap, which overwhelmingly affects higher AAV deals. There is only a marginal trickle-down effect on salaries in the middle of the spectrum.
Currently 80 to 90 percent of all Major League Baseball players never realize their true market value.
The union is protecting multimillionaires with its opposition to the cap. The cap would primarily affect only the top end of the salary range. That is the MLBPA's prerogative. However, if the players could obtain restricted free agency after three or four years in exchange for a cap, the median salary would improve dramatically and produce far better financial outcomes for hundreds of players.
And to top it off, the multimillionaires would still become multimillionaires.
Look I get it this is a rough year and it's not likely to do a complete 180. For me we're at the stage now of what are we learning? What are we learning about our veteran players, what are we learning about our young players, what are we learning about our farm system, what is Tony learning about managing in MLB, what is Buster learning?
Often you learn more from failure than success, embrace that because right now there is a lot of failure. Let's learn how to turn that into success!
@MarkusBoucher Hard to imagine that it could be worse than the Giants end since they lost Harrison in the deal and still have an under performing Devers and his contract...
@nflrums Can you blame him? Adding AJ Brown completely changes that receiver room and the target share just isn't there for Boutte anymore. Plus he realizes that a guy with the name of Boutte in an organization led by Vrabel just leads to too many jokes.